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Moogfest Announces Livestream, Female & Non-Binary Talent

By Ryan Borba

Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2017 at 6:00 am

Moogfest, the art and technology festival named after synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog, today made its first talent announcement for its May 17-20 2018 Durham, N.C, event, with a lineup led by female, non-binary, and transgender artists and a keynote conversation with privacy rights activist Chelsea Manning.

These artists will participate in ”Future Sound “performances by night complemented by the same artists leading Future Thought workshops, and conversations by day.

The announcement includes “Always On,” a 50-hour livestream presented in partnership with Tom Tom Magazine from Today at 12:00 pm ET to 2:00 p.m. ET Dec. 8. It can be viewed for free at http://Alwayson.live.

Manning’s keynote conversation on “The Future of Creativity” will “explore how technology enables radical disruption in the personal and political spheres, framing the technological future as a new creative landscape,” according to the announcement. Since its introduction in 2014, past Moogfest keynote speakers include: transhumanist Dr. Martine Rothblatt, VR pioneer Jaron Lanier, Dr. Kate Shaw from the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Harvard’s Dr. Joe Davis, and philosopher Nick Bostrum.